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I couple years ago I read "A Mind at Play", Soni & Goodman, a biography on Claude Shannon. He grew up on a farm and the book mentions how he made extensive use

by idatum 7mo ago

I couple years ago I read "A Mind at Play", Soni & Goodman, a biography on Claude Shannon. He grew up on a farm and the book mentions how he made extensive use of barbed wire fence telegraph (and if I recall telephone). Perhaps one of the early experiences Shannon had regarding information. The MIT Museum had a display (last year) of Shannon's "toys", including the famous mouse maze. I don't recall any mention of his early days using barbed wire telegraph though.

JackAcid 7mo ago
I’ve had that book for several years. This thread has finally motivated me to start it.
westurner 7mo ago
"The Bit Player" (2018) film, "The Information" (Gleick) book, "Who invented the transistor?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46449618 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46449618 : > Who invented the electric fence gate? > How does the electric fence gate lead to transistors? > [ Relay, Electric gate, Flip-flop (electronics) ] /? find a specific transcript from "The Bit Player" and "Claude Shannon: The Father of the Information Age" IEEE Information Theory Society video where the narrator makes the leap from the Morse dots and dashes on fence wire to the math of entropy (and logarithms and channel coding and capacity limits)
- aspenmayer 7mo ago
  > /? find a specific transcript from "The Bit Player" and "Claude Shannon: The Father of the Information Age" IEEE Information Theory Society video where the narrator makes the leap from the Morse dots and dashes on fence wire to the math of entropy (and logarithms and channel coding and capacity limits) Who is meant to be doing the finding, in this case?
  - westurner 7mo ago
    There's a prompt and methods. That prompt can be used with any LLM
    - aspenmayer 7mo ago
      HN is for people, by people; I don’t use LLMs to create or consume HN content, and I don’t think it’s fair to expect others to do so either. For that matter, generated comments are against HN guidelines. Draw the rest of the owl.
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      - westurner 7mo ago
        "Gimme that for free." Because I have an AI preference.
        aspenmayer 7mo ago
        I’m not arguing for using an AI, I’m simply asking you to write your own comment. I don’t have a “AI preference” but a preference to read comments as opposed to placeholders and shorthand stopgapped by prompts. There’s a reason why “let me Google that for you” style replies are frowned upon here. It’s fair to ask you to write your comment, which was all I was suggesting. I am interested in what you had to say, and am genuinely curious in the point you were trying to make. Otherwise what are we even doing here? The site is for human interaction, not AI mediated interactions steered by humans. Please don’t take my line of inquiry as being opposed to you, rather can curious about what your prompt was alluding to. I’d rather get the information from the person who wrote the comment than assume any potential AI output generated by your prompt was what you meant, which is why I asked for clarification.
renato_shira 7mo ago
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by idatum 7mo ago

JackAcid 7mo ago

I’ve had that book for several years. This thread has finally motivated me to start it.

westurner 7mo ago

"The Bit Player" (2018) film, "The Information" (Gleick) book, "Who invented the transistor?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46449618 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46449618 : > Who invented the electric fence gate? > How does the electric fence gate lead to transistors? > [ Relay, Electric gate, Flip-flop (electronics) ] /? find a specific transcript from "The Bit Player" and "Claude Shannon: The Father of the Information Age" IEEE Information Theory Society video where the narrator makes the leap from the Morse dots and dashes on fence wire to the math of entropy (and logarithms and channel coding and capacity limits)

aspenmayer 7mo ago
> /? find a specific transcript from "The Bit Player" and "Claude Shannon: The Father of the Information Age" IEEE Information Theory Society video where the narrator makes the leap from the Morse dots and dashes on fence wire to the math of entropy (and logarithms and channel coding and capacity limits) Who is meant to be doing the finding, in this case?
- westurner 7mo ago
  There's a prompt and methods. That prompt can be used with any LLM
  - aspenmayer 7mo ago
    HN is for people, by people; I don’t use LLMs to create or consume HN content, and I don’t think it’s fair to expect others to do so either. For that matter, generated comments are against HN guidelines. Draw the rest of the owl.
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    - westurner 7mo ago
      "Gimme that for free." Because I have an AI preference.
      - aspenmayer 7mo ago
        I’m not arguing for using an AI, I’m simply asking you to write your own comment. I don’t have a “AI preference” but a preference to read comments as opposed to placeholders and shorthand stopgapped by prompts. There’s a reason why “let me Google that for you” style replies are frowned upon here. It’s fair to ask you to write your comment, which was all I was suggesting. I am interested in what you had to say, and am genuinely curious in the point you were trying to make. Otherwise what are we even doing here? The site is for human interaction, not AI mediated interactions steered by humans. Please don’t take my line of inquiry as being opposed to you, rather can curious about what your prompt was alluding to. I’d rather get the information from the person who wrote the comment than assume any potential AI output generated by your prompt was what you meant, which is why I asked for clarification.

renato_shira 7mo ago

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